Dollops of wax awaited molding in Phoenix Savage's studio in the Patterson Building at Penn State's University Park campus. Savage is the Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities Being Humans Postdoctoral Fellow

Emily Cleveland, a senior journalism major from Philadelphia, participated in the "Human Touch Project" in the Patterson Building at Penn State's University Park campus. The inset shows her finished "touch."

Ashley Fehringer, a junior animal sciences major from Gettysburg, Pa., participated in the "Human Touch Project" in the Patterson Building at Penn State's University Park campus. In the inset, is her nearly completed "touch."

Boxes of completed "touches" piled up in Phoenix Savage's studio in the Patterson Building at Penn State's University Park campus. "When I look at them collectively," she said, "I do see sort of an inner dialogue about human thoughts and ideas."